longinquity

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Greatness of distance; remoteness.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Greatness of distance.

Etymologies

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Examples

While we were discoursing of India (concerning which I found that, like most globular trotters, he had not been long enough in the country to be accurately informed), enters a third party, who, it so happened, was an early acquaintance of my companion, though separated by the old lang sign of a longinquity.

"You are free," said his friends at last, who had wanted to prove him; "and they showed him the king's order, which he read," says Abbe Arnauld, "without any change of countenance, and as little affected by joy as he had been a moment before by the longinquity of his release."